ELEVENELEVEN :: 25 JACQUI O'REILLY

Jacqui O’Reilly is a singer/songwriter from Sydney, Australia. Emerging from the folk underworld into new electronic music by way of passion, projects and people, Jacqui has prepared the Emerge Outside podcast.

The podcast features a thirty minute improvised soundscape that was recorded live at the Emerge Outside performance at Performance Space, CarriageWorks in Sydney. Emerge Outside, a project conceived by Jacqui O’Reilly and Randolf Reimann (Tra La La Blip), was built on the notion that hidden outside mainstream society, people exist with a passion for music making, who often do not get a chance to inhabit a creative space, or access new technologies and artistic processes, due to social and physical barriers systemic in our society.

The project engaged nine people with and without a disability in a two day music making workshop. Using found sounds, modern synthesis techniques and a quadraphonic sound system, the group created an immersive journey into sound.

Also included in the podcast are tracks by Huw Lewis (Emerge Outside project); Sarah Bock (Press Eject/Emerge Outside project); Pumice (NZ) with his cover of Chris Knox song Grand Mal from 1989; a Daniel Johnston cover by The Ghost of 29 Megacycles (WA) and an Outside Remix by Randolf Reimann with Jacqui O’Reilly on vocals.